Oct 30, 2015
The system is based on an IR CCD camera and data processing by artificial intelligence, and results can be monitored on mobile systems such as an iPhone. In addition to detecting large posture changes by patients such as sitting, standing or leaning against the...
Oct 28, 2015
The technology is based on the removal of chlorophyll by a chemical reagent. After irradiation with fluorescent light, It allows to visualize tagged plant structures such as proteins, pollen tubes etc. by a confocal microscope once these structures have been tagged by...
Oct 28, 2015
Process development has reached a 46 kL stage with 90 % yields based on biomass sugar content. Biomass hydrolysis is done by dilute sulfuric acid. The Napier grass is from Indonesia, and the yeast was engineered to utilize both glucose and xylase, by activating the...
Oct 27, 2015
The group of Ryuji KATO at Nagoya University is using collagen vitrogel deposited on sericin to bind vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells selectively. Preliminary animal experiments indicate that intima thickening and thrombus formation can be prevented in...
Oct 26, 2015
Based on the enzyme CutA1 from Pyrococcus horikoshi, expressed in E. coli, the group of showed that site-directed substitution of charged surface amino acids by hydrophobic amino acids was able to rise the temperature stability of this protein from 84 °C (wild type)...
